James MacNee is a copy editor for the Contemplative Sciences Center’s Journal of Contemplative Studies (JCS) specializing in grant writing at the Contemplative Innovation and Research Co-Lab (CIRCL). As an editor for JCS, he has designed the in-house style guide to balance the journal’s ability to reach the interdisciplinary and emergent field of Contemplative Studies while maintaining a faithfulness to the particular traditions, languages, and contexts in which scholars work. James is also a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is a philosophical study of the 14th-century text, The Treasury of the Expanse of Phenomena (Chos dbyings mdzod). In his dissertation, he argues for the particular potency of poetry to evoke states of consciousness that are radically unstructured, spontaneous, dynamically creative, and—in the end—liberatory. Such possibilities of poetry have implications for the study of Buddhist philosophy’s understanding of Buddhist contemplation, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.